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Edmund Leach
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The Essential Edmund Leach: Anthropology and society
This volume contains a selection of Edmund Leach's writings on society, taken largely, though not exclusively, from the early part of his career. It includes such essays as Rethinking Anthropology and extracts from Political Systems of Highland Burma.
Edmund Leach
Intellectual biography of Edmund Leach, a leading social anthropologist of his generation, with illustrations.
Culture and Communication
Edmund Leach's book investigates the writings of 'structuralists' and their theories in anthropology.
Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan
This book endeavours to test two opposing arguments about the meaning of the term caste.
Claude Levi-Strauss
In this lucide guide to the often abstruse works of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edmund Leach synthesizes the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest anthropologists and provides a thoughtful introduction to the theory and practice of structuralism. Leach organizes his work not by chronology but by theme, exploring three important topics in Lévi-Strauss's work: human beings and their symbols, the structure of myth, and kinship theory. Written concisely and with great care and penetration, this brief book is both a fine introduction for the uninitiated reader of Lévi-Strauss and a critical analysis that will prove valuable to those more familiar with the anthropologist's work.
A Runaway World?
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Political Systems of Highland Burma
The main body of the book is concerned with the theme that empirical political behaviour among the Kachin is a compromise response to the polarised political doctrines of gumsa and gumlao.. Nearly one-third of this book consists of Chapter V entitiled 'The Structural Categories of Kachin Gumsa Society'. It is concerned with the interpretation of a series of verbal concepts and their interconnections. This long chapter is placed between a relatively short account of a particular Kachin community directly observed (Chapter IV) and a series of chapters (VI, VII, VIII) containing secondhand ethnographic and historical evidence.
